Will Ferrell Returns As George W. Bush To Respond To Killing Of Osama Bin Laden
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP) - "Saturday Night Live" alumnus Will Ferrell has returned to his President George W. Bush impression, this time to respond to the death of Osama Bin Laden.
In a Web video posted Wednesday on Funny Or Die, Ferrell's Bush sends his remarks from a Sizzler steak house in Texas. His message? He has personally overseen a "strategic and covert operation,'' killing a gopher that had been terrorizing his backyard.
The parody ends with the Bush character getting the news that bin Laden has been killed. That makes "two good things,'' he says.
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Ferrell's impression of Bush, popular on SNL, was resurrected in a 2009 Broadway show, as well as in sporadic videos.
Watched by more than 110,000 by Wednesday afternoon, the video was rapidly gaining viewers.
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